Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-05-18

that . trihing misstep may leave him
throttled on the ground.
IL do" be said.
Then CO." The Professors appraised
arm pointed away from his home. And he
went.
The Professor waited for time for his
heart to stop beating and the thirst 10 pass
away. Then he went back to the sitting
room.
my dear" he said with apparent gay
ETY., sit is great success"
"Ts itp" she said eagerly. Il am so
glad"
ut is great success" he repeated al
most bitterly. ''Can ] ever repay my
dear little wife for letting it take from her
so much of her husbands time? ''
There was horrible. agonizing fear in
his heart that her love had forever gone
from him, but only faint culver could
have been noticed in the strong mans
voice.
Tears sprang to her eyes, she clasped
her arms tightly around his neck. and.
burying her head in his coat, she sobbed
long and Historically. like an ailing child.
And the Professor feared no more
There were no words said. She never
knew, then or thereafter, that the Pro-
fessor had discovered anything. She did
not attempt to explain her crying, and
the Professor fortunately did not seem to
think there was any need.
Some months have passed. 1t has been
remarked. though nobody appears able to
exactly define it, that the Professor is
changed man.
He works more industriously than ever
at his ambition, but he works only in the
daytime now and abandons the thought of
his studies when he enters his door at
night. They 60 out great deal in the
evenings and enjoy themselves wherever
they go. Since the treatise was off his
mind the Professor has taken an interest
in the affairs of the neighborhood in the
servants. complaints, marriages, babies,
and millinery of other people. which, for
man of his abstruse research is, to say
the least. unusual His interest In light
literature is new departure. They dis
cuss it often. and his wife has been sur
prised to learn, through the Professor,
what really discriminating critic she is
upon nearly all the things that men both
er their brains to write about. The Pro-
fessor's fondness for music he has been.
himself. astouished, to discover, and
when she played Beethoven's Moonlight
Sonata" at a recent musicale, he was really
as greedy of praises of it as if he had
played the piece himself. The Professors
wife is reputed to be the happiest woman
in Alameda County. and that the Profes.
sor is the happiest man is beyond a doubt.
The Professor, in truth. has been deep
ly studying. unknown to anybody, that
biological fact called "woman." And he
has found out several things that he did
not know.
He has discovered that though she be.
longs to the same geological species as
man, she is an independent and distinct
creation; that though similar to him in
structural plan, she is different in all
things else. That she looks upon all the
| daily events of life with different ewes,
reaching different conclusions in observa-
ton; that her imagination takes wing
| from different perch to soar in differ
ent realm that her sympathies flow from
sources to him unknown. through chan
nels to which he is stranger. That she
is brave with different bravery, strong
with different strength, and weak in a
different way. That she hates with a
different hate, grieves with different
griet, and loves with different love from
mans. And, furthermore, that it is these
differences, and these alone, which have
throned her as the gentle empress of all
living nature the most delicate and per-
feet thing that came from the tender
hands of God.
The Professor has concluded in short
that no hobby approaches in importance
to his wife.
The Professor is very wise man -
~ Y. Sat,,dau Times.